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“Your Body is for You”: Possibilities for Size Acceptance, Criticality, and Social-Emotional Wellness in Upper Elementary English Language Arts Education
Get PDFThis Integrated Master’s Project explores how body image literature can be used in upper elementary classrooms (grades 3 to 5) to support critical literacy and psychosocial development, and vice-versa. Using the approaches Health at Every Size® (HAES), affect theory, and critical literacy, I propose a new analytical framework for thinking about weight stigma and children’s self-image through the lens of literature. There is a growing presence of fiction and nonfiction books that address weight stigma and center children’s experiences of their bodies, and incorporating these books into literacy/English Language Arts (ELA) curricula can help educators shape their classrooms into spaces of care and critical consciousness. At the heart of my project is Phoebe the Mighty Mermaid: an original picture book about a nine-year-old girl who learns with the help of her family to accept her body as it is, even when the process proves to be difficult. In a society where children are continuously exposed to “the thin ideal,” literature provides a powerful counter-narrative and an opportunity for educators to raise awareness of weight discrimination and promote self-acceptance
The Best Children\u27s Books of 2023: Holiday Gift Edition
Get PDFNotable titles that have captured the attention of Children\u27s Book Committee members just in time for the holidays!https://educate.bankstreet.edu/ccl/1024/thumbnail.jp
Painting Our Treescapes: A Visual
Get PDFTwo children (ages 6 and 9) represent an afternoon spent in their urban, wintery treescape through visual art, photo documentation, and written narrative. The first piece, My Imaginary Forest , considers the seasons, animals, and issues of artistic representation of nature. The second piece describes the relationship between a favourite tree and a child, and considers others -- both present and future -- who also occupy Our Knotty Tree . All of the words, visual art, and photo selection are those of the children
Planting Trees in Drought Fields: A Story of Tree Planting with Children in an Elementary School in Pakistan
Get PDFThis story is about my experiences of getting children involved in tree planting activities in a school setting. This tree planting activity was carried out in a primary school. This is a Government Girls Elementary School situated in a village Mohra Mari, Tehsil Gujar Khan, District Rawalpindi. This school is a part of the Union Council Kauntrilla in Punjab Province in Pakistan. Tree planting activities in the school were organized by the school staff, students along with their parents who also participated as part of tree plantation campaign. Considering the important role that trees can play in protecting societies and the local communities, the tree planting activities are considered a useful curriculum resource for young children providing them hands on learning experiences in countries like Pakistan
Long Trip 2023 Oral History Itinerary
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Educating English Language Learners in New York City Following the Covid-19 Pandemic: Observations and Recommendations for Primary Instruction
No full textThis literature study addresses the unique experience of educating English Language Learners (ELLs) in New York City during and following Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) that occurred as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic
Trees in Our City How a Tree and a Small Patch of Dirt Inspired a Classroom
Get PDFAs a new Director in a new school, I knew that I wanted the children to have a curiosity for nature. But to lead the children to a place of discovery, they would need the opportunity to observe, play, and engage in elements of nature that would support hands-on activities both in the classroom and outside. When the opportunity came for me to build my own early childhood program, I knew that I had a unique opportunity to incorporate elements of nature in the design of the classroom. But I wanted nature to be local and the trees of our environment to become part of the children’s daily interactions and experiences. 2 Trees in Our City I saw so many possibilities to explore nature in our community; there were courtyards with grabble paths, shrubs, and grasses flanked by trees. There were trees around the perimeter of our school. Our windows faced east towards the Hudson River filling each classroom with the early morning rays of the sunrise. It became important to me that the native plants were visible from the classroom enabling inquiry and observation to occur naturally
Schools Are Where Trees and Children’s Livelihoods Go to Die: A Teacher’s Reflection on Revitalizing Land-Based Education
Get PDFPlainly said: schools are where trees and children’s livelihoods go to die; both cut down, gutted and their desecrated remains used for the maintenance and reproduction of the establishment. Through its critique of schooling—its ties to individualism, harmful social reproduction, colonial foundations, and centering of white supremacist ideologies, this paper makes the case for land-based education as a conduit toward healing, innovation and connection. It draws links between the irreconcilable nature of youth wellness and schooling, while centering pedagogical reverence for the natural world, particularly connection with tree spaces, as part of a critical educational trajectory toward symbiotic relationship with the land. Only by nature of youth understanding that they too are extensions of the land, can we build toward a more liberated and sustainable future
Muriel Mandell, Oral History of the Children\u27s Book Committee
No full textMuriel Mandell, writer and educator, gives a history of the Children\u27s Book Committee, which she joined in 1983. She is the author of a dozen books for children and taught in New York City from kindergarten to graduate school. In recent years she has written and adapted more than 50 stories for an app for young children, and to this day remains an editor of the Children\u27s Book Committee annual list.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/oralhistories/1009/thumbnail.jp
A Pedagogy of Water: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo as Ancestral Waters
Get PDFThe purpose of this research project is to facilitate intergenerational teaching and learning of Indigenous knowledge by the frontera communities of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo. Our river is our main source of clean water, and is also a militarized, international border between the US and Mexico. I used the stories and teachings of local Indigenous elders to create a Pedagogy of Water that focuses on the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo as part of the sacred, ancestral landscape of south Texas. This project strengthens the community by connecting multiple generations to the land and river where we live, and demonstrates the perseverance of Indigenous peoples and knowledges through time